Cutting cubes once again

Now that the Soma cubes for the movie are done, I spent a couple of hours out in the garage cutting up the already sized wood I picked up at Paxton’s. When I picked it up I thought it was oak, but once I started cutting it I changed my mind.

It sort of had the look of oak, but it was entirely the wrong color – a greenish gray. When I cut it I got little “shards” of wood. It also lacked the smell of fresh cut oak.

I hit up my experts on both the Charles Neil and the Eons woodworking sites. The consensus was that this is ash. So ash it is.

When I was done cutting up what I had, we ended up with enough little cubes for 18 3x3x3 puzzles and two pentomino sets. We’ll be building 6 each of Soma, 30 Minute, and Interlock puzzles, along with the two pentomino sets.

In addition to all of that, I have enough ends that are long enough to put together a notched packing puzzle as well.

And this was only the first of the wood that I picked up from Paxton’s – there’s a lot more yet to come.